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Bitfloor, the largest Bitcoin exchange market in the U.S., is temporarily halting trading until further notice after an attack on its system. The hackers walked away with 24,000 Bitcoins — valued at $250,000 based on current trading levels. If you've...

Facebook is by far the largest social network on the web. While Mark Zuckerberg has made plenty of great calls in its design, the site -- and the way people use it -- isn't as streamlined as it could be. These 20 tips, tricks and tools will give help...

Cengizhan Çelik and Candan Canik of Turkey got married and exchanged their vows over Twitter. The happy pair "wanted to have a little surprise," according to the groom, who works as the social media editor of a Turkish news site. The mayor of Istanbu...

Unlike your clunky old desktop computer, your smartphone follows you everywhere. This convenience, of course, creates certain risks to your device — one of which is death by drowning. When you're busy living life, it's all too easy to jump on your ka...

James Bond. Maxwell Smart. Sydney Bristow. Spies' wonderful toys make or break their missions whenever we see them in books, movies, or TV shows. Real-life spy gadgets are at times even more diabolical than those used by make-believe villains. While ...

Is it impossible to keep tech-savvy teens safe online? A recent McAfee survey shows that 70% of teens hide online behavior from parents. Some of the things they're hiding include violence and porn. But some teens also reported lying, cheating, steali...

This isn't a story about a new bionic eye technology that's yet to undergo testing or a cool robotic eye that's actually just a camera in disguise. This is a story about a bionic eye technology that might actually make it outside the laboratories and...

When the seasons change here on Earth, the weather gets cooler, leaves change color and in some areas, snow begins to fall. But what happens when seasons change on the distant planet Saturn? Gorgeous new photos from NASA's Cassini probe, released Wed...

Deleting a Facebook friend can put an immediate end to painful, creepy or aggravating interactions. And some people out there definitely deserve it. Spammers, stalkers, cyberbullies and strangers have no business on your profile and should be nixed w...

There are probably a few people on your Twitter feed or Facebook friends list that you consider "crazy," and a new study by says you might be right. Simply using certain words in your daily tweets may be enough to determine if you have psychopathic t...

We've seen companies and people do some inventive things with Facebook's Timeline feature, but this project may take the cake. Grovo, a company looking to better educate people about common web and mobile products, has curated the entire history of t...

It used to be you knew you were getting old when your favorite songs got covered by new upstart bands. These days, though, you don't even have to wait for your gray hairs to come in before you hear that remix. With YouTube churning out community cont...

With today's dependence on electronics for work, play and just about anything to do with productivity, you may often find yourself staring at screens for more than 10 hours a day. With this in mind, it's important to protect your eyes by minimizing h...

Similar to music identification apps that can listen and identify a song's name, a new piece of mobile software called Ad Hawk lets you know who is really behind a particular political ad you see on television. What's more, it drills down into the le...

Things are getting dead serious in the battle between AMC and Dish Network, emphasis on dead. In its latest publicity stunt to protest Dish Network's drop, AMC has created an advertising campaign and multi-state bus tour for A. Zombie, an independent...

If you've cut out the unhealthy snacks but you're still a bit overweight, you may want to take a good long look at your alarm clock. New research shows that it may be making you overweight. Obviously, your alarm clock isn't sneaking food in your mout...

Long gone are the days when counting cows served as the form of entertainment on long car trips on the way to Grandma's house. Today's kids have every type of entertainment gadget imaginable, along with an arsenal of apps to keep them occupied during...

Phil Plait, also known as the "Bad Astronomer," is a Discover columnist known for making really complicated space stuff (Black holes! White dwarves! Spacetime!) not only totally understandable, but completely fascinating. Plait made a stop in Portlan...

With a seemingly endless number of Blu-ray players on the market these days, you'd think it should be simple to pick one out -- they all play Blu-ray movies, and that's the whole point. But you have options like streaming Netflix, connecting to the I...

As the Curiosity rover brings a new era of exploration, it's a good time to look back at some of the amazing Mars discoveries we've already made. We're not just talking about run-of-the-mill debunking (like the fact that there probably aren't any ali...

If you're looking for a spell to aid you on your next adventure, then you're sorely out of luck. The great and powerful Internet auction house eBay banned all sales of wizardly enchantments and magic spells, even if you have a vacuum cleaner's worth ...

Ringing up at more than twice the price of a new, base model 16GB iPad, the Strut LaunchPort case is definitely one of the most extravagant accessories we've seen yet for Apple's line of tablet computers. Its $1,250 price tag mostly seems tied to the...

We hope you're ready for that new inkjet you just bought to look positively prehistoric. That's because a team of researchers in Singapore have managed to build a printer that can create detailed color images a mere 50 micrometers across, the width o...

While other car makers experiment with alternative fuels like hydrogen, biodiesel, and compressed natural gas, Indian auto company Tata is literally hoping to pull the propulsion for its new concept vehicle out of thin air. Called the AirPod, this di...

The flying cars from Back to the Future seem just right outside our reach. Not content to just wait around for three years, Future-fan Matthew Riese decided to approximate a flying DeLorean best he could: By creating his own Back to the Future time m...

If you've ever dreamed of staring up at the night sky using an extremely large and powerful telescope, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is holding a contest that is sure to appeal to your inner astronomer. To celebrate its 50th anniversary, th...

If you're like us, you know the excitement that comes with discovering a great new TV show -- even if it means shunning human contact for a few days while marathoning it from Episode 1 in order to catch up with what's on the air. It can be a drag, th...

With the 2012 Summer Olympics in full swing, you're probably glued to your TV screen -- or the computer screen if you find NBC's delayed telecast unacceptable. But take your eyes off the tube for a bit and treat yourself to this amusing gallery of Le...

When most couples first find out that they are having a baby, waiting for the right moment to break the news takes a lot energy. Now, with all the clever pregnancy announcement ideas floating around on Pinterest, you can announce in style....

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